The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-12-09

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it-not roses an such ike, but lilies
an violets; an in the bag there is
cookies, an gran'ma eats one now an
then ter kind o; stay ner appetite but
the little boy gets none, fur it would
be wicked fur little boys ter eat cook
les in meetin' time. Gran'ma is old
its different with her"
Eye don't remember, do ye," asked
Antioch, with what a feelin' Nv relief
We used ter hear the last hymn given
out? The congregation used ter
stand up an turn round an face the
choir in the gall'ry. And everybody
sung, too, fur in them days folks
didn't hev ter get musical eddicashuns
afore they cud praise God"
"Sing2 Why l should say SOL" cried
Coronation. "They WANT no great
folks, an there never wuz much airs
on the wes' side O. the mountain, no.
how, but in O. meetin' house on Sun
day they jest lifted up their voices ez
much ez to say III Gods ears is open
to-day there amt nobody goin' to
get the start Nv the Newfane folks"
All, Hiram Atkins, that wuz sacred
music we had in them days"
II don't understand it, nuther,'
said China, in a quavering voice, "un-
less twas cause in them days we had
plain meetin' houses instead O.
churches, an plain ministers ter
preach plain gospel instead O. emil
nent diVines ter deliver eloquent dis
courses like they hev in these hifalu-
tin days. Leastwise, it's sort o. diff
ferent an changed like now, an with
the change we OF tunes is forgotten"
ooh, no, not forgotten" cried Hi
ram, "Some OF us, perhaps, are
ashamed, in these different days OF the
quaint old tunes our gran'mas use ter
sing, but we hain't forgot 'em-oh,
no, we hain't forgot 'em. They haunt
us like sweet memories, an very, very
often the thought on EN- brings inter
our lives somethin' that makes us
purer an stronger an better"
"Waal, l hope So" sighed Hamburg,
'leastwise Pm glad to hear We say so,
Hiram, fur We wuz q wild bOy-yes, ye
wuz dre'iul coltish then"
"Hush, don't speak so loud, the
children might hear ye," said Hiram,
starting up and gazing apprehensively
around him. You're wrong, old
l was a very sedate boy, as l
remember distinctly"
"Waal, now, did you ever!" exciaim-
ed the tunes in chorus, and then they
la~ughed-ay, and Old Hundred
loudest of all.
It's powerful curious how a man
tries ter forget he ever wuz q boy" said
''You use ter cut up worse'n
any other boy in Wind'am county,
Atkins, an you know it! Why,
all on us know how you use ter carry
on at choir meetin', and on Sundays,
5oo-yes, stree, on Sundays, tool"
eyes, l Wuz q member O. the choir
said Hiram, ~sullenly, ,..... co.
go course ye wuz," said State
an ye sungan alfred honest
book, too, as ] well remember. An
lon't We recollect Mirandy Perkins,"
Miranda Perkins? OF course he did.
Hiram had waited on her for two
Tears before he went west. She had
checks and glossy black oufis, and
Ter eyes were full of mischief-seemed
o Hiram he could see her now in her
delaine gown and quaint shak-
bonnet. 1t was a pleasant
picture. Miranda used to sing
Ilto in the choir. There
we're eight of them in the choir-the
,wo Morse girls, Susan Baxter, Lew
Hepsy Burdette, Miranda
Perkins, and himself, Hiram Atkins.
he remembered them all, and by the
lear light the old tune-book threw
around him he could see them now,
90.
Miranda Perkinsl He wondered
what had become of her; she must be
wrinkled and gray-haired woman
somehow, he could think OF
Ter only as the red-cheeked, black
'yed girl who had sung slto to his
pass in the Newfane choir.
"Mirandy married Sam Baxter"
aid Lenox. eve WIZ all at the we'd
an a pulitzer couple never sot
out together. S'pose We don'r remem-
Der Sam, do ye? Lived with the OF
olks on the farm near the Townsend
,oll-gate; use ter sing tenor in the
choir when you wuz there"
$50 Mirandy TUX up with Sam, did
muttered Hiram. "Humph, she
nighter done better!"
Hiram had never liked Sam Baxter:
low he hated him. Yet it was twenty.
i've years since he had seen Sam-or
Miranda either, for that matter. He
remembered Sam as q loutish fellow.
With tow hair with a habit of sing.
very much out of tune, and when
le thought OF Miranda Perkins all Of
diram's recoliections Of Sam Baxter's
unpleasant characteristics were re-
with intensity.
"But they moved down ter Pond.
nile the mex spring after they wuz
married" said Migdol, can We hain't
seem ,em sence."
Guess ye Wnz sort o. gone on Mi
yerself, want ye2p inquired
Dedham, slyly. ~ can recollect how
70 used ter purr round her.
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